The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-10-22
Political Notes.

Culpepper, Va, Advance 'The So called
reformers in Baltimore are trying to defeat
the regular Democratic ticket in that city.
They call themselves Democrats who are try
ing to purge their party of its bad men. Now,
we reckon the Democracy Of Baltimore got
rid of its worst men when these fellows decided
to bolt"
Daniel NJ. Worthington, the candidate for
the State Senate on the Republican ticket in
Howard county, Nd, has withdrawn, owing
to business engagements which would prevent
his serving if elected, and George w. Hall, of
the first district, has been chosen by the state
central committee for the county as the can
didate in his place. Marshal McCauley has
also declined the nomination for judge OF the
Orphans Court, and VIM. Bergman has been
nominated in his place.
Martinsville, Va, News: SIN Maryland
there is quite an interesting political contest
in progress. II is attracting the attention OF
the whole country. 1t is peculiarly hight
against Senator German and the administra-
ton of Cleveland, and the result is looked
forward to with great interest. The Republic
cans have gained a few soreheads and few
of the mugwump stripe from the Democrats,
but Maryland, when her voice is heard IN
November, will be found true TO her party
traditions of the past, and will not give less
than $4,000 majority for the Democratic
party"
The Maryland Progressive Assembly, col
ored, held their regular meeting at their
rooms, corner Lexington and Arch streets,
Baltimore, last Friday night, Prot. John X.
Draper, president, and Alexander u. Cross,
secretary. The assembly's membership in
cludes residents of nearly every ward in the
city, and its object is to advance the general
interests of the colored people. Resolutions
were adopted appointing a committee to make
demands on the Republican candidates for
Governor and mayor, so as to insure the par.
ticipation of colored men in liberal share Of
the offices in case of the success of the party.
The Richmond, Va, State, one of the ablest
and most conservative journals south Of the
Potomac, has an article on the contesti IN Bal
timore and Jay Gould, whom it styles mo
nopoist and Republican. The State says
''Some of the merchants and wage workers Of
Baltimore have been caught by the cry oil
reform but when conservative men ponder
the situation well they will hardly vote to turn
the state and city over to the party domi-
mated by desperate tricksters and grasping
monopolists.n The State then notes from an
editorial of the Sun touching the purchase oil
the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph by Jay
Gould, and declares that every man who
keeps himself informed upon topics of the
times will indorse all that the Sun says about
Mr.. Gould and his methods" The State
then concludes: "Gould has undertaken
many desperate enterprises, from 'scoopine
up a ten mile road to wrecking an entire
railway system. Like Malone, Gould has
always been an enemy of organized labor, and
he has made many desperate efforts to smash
the unions But perhaps the most startling
scheme that he ever attempted was that Of
cheating the Democrats out of the Presidency
of 1884 He had used a barrel of money in
the interest of the Republican party, and when
he found that Blaine had lost New York he
kept back the returns in order to give the Re
publican cheaters opportunity to FIX the
ballot boxes. He would have succeeded IN
his diabolical scheme but for the determine
ton of Mr.. Cleveland and his counsellors and
the uprising Of the masses against the arch
coHspirator. Gould was bold at the start
indeed, but when he heard that the people
were aroused against him he dropped his
scheme and ran away and hid until the Re,
publican managers conceded the election Of
the Democratic ticket. Well may the citizens
of Baltimore, of all classes, dread the en-.
croachments of the inscriptions king of Wall
street, the shining light in the Republican
marty.